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Leetcode Problem 2434. Using a Robot to Print the Lexicographically Smallest String

2434. Using a Robot to Print the Lexicographically Smallest String

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Greedy Approach with Minimum Suffix Tracking

  1. Create a list rightmin to track the minimum character in the suffix starting from each index in s.
  2. Initialize an empty string t and an empty string p for the output.
  3. Iterate through the string s from left to right.
  4. At each step, pop characters from t and append them to p if they are lexicographically smaller or equal to both the current character in s and the minimum character in the suffix of s.
  5. Append the current character of s to t.
  6. After the iteration, pop all remaining characters from t and append them to p.
  7. Return the string p.
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Brute Force Approach with Character Frequency Tracking

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